Description

WINTERBORNE ZELSTON SY 99 NW

8/183 Huish 14-7-55 GV II

Small manor house. c1798. Plastered walls, hipped slate roof with wide bracketed eaves. Plastered stacks with moulded caps. Double-pile plan with added C19 rear wing. In Regency style. 2 storeys. Central panelled door in open portico with Tuscan columns and flat entablature. Ground floor has 2 full-height sash windows with glazing bars. First floor has 3 sash windows with glazing bars. Right of the main block, a small attached block with separate hipped roof. Full height sash window with glazing bars on ground floor and small sash windows with glazing bars on first floor. Right of this, a lower 2-storeyed service range, with plastered walls, hipped slate roof and 2 plastered stacks on ridge. Panelled door. 3 casement windows with cast iron glazing on each floor. C20 window with glazing bars on ground floor. Lower attached outbuilding on right, in matching construction, linked to stable block (q.v.) by a brick wall. C19 rear wing in matching construction. In angle of this with main house a C20 covered swimming pool.

Internally, some original fireplaces, cornices and joinery survive. Elliptical arched openings on first floor landing. Former bakehouse at right end of service range has large open fireplace, bread oven, and well. (RCHM - unnumbered, Dorset, Vol.III, p.315.)

Listing NGR: SY9048197859

External Links

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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